Goa court decides to frame rape charges against Tarun Tejpal

The former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine, Tarun Tejpal, who has been accused of raping a woman, appeared before a Sessions Court in north Goa’s Mapusa town, for an in-camera trial on 7 September. The Goa court has fixed the next hearing on 28 September for the charges to be framed, as per report. The court had earlier granted Tejpal’s plea under CrPC Section 327(2) to conduct the proceedings in the rape case in-camera.